COGenBlog

The Douglas County Clerk and Recorder’s Office now has an index of Douglas County marriages on their Public Document Access website. The records start on 8 May 1881 and end in November 2005. This fills in the gap between the CD-ROM index published by the Colorado Genealogical Society in 2004, Colorado Marriages, 1858-1939 and the Colorado State Marriage Index which starts in 1975.
The records can be searched using partial entries and includes all pertinent information such as name of bride and groom, date of application, date of marriage, license number, book and page. The index can be accessed at the Douglas County Public Document website.

The Colorado Genealogical Society will hold their annual seminar on 18 March 2006, featuring Mark Lowe, CG. Lowe is the immediate past president of the Association of Professional Genealogists. The event will be held in the Conference Center of the downtown Denver Public Library from 10:30 am - 4:00 pm. The fee for the all day event is $25.

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Colorado (JGSCO) will present a “Beyond the Basics Seminar” on 26 February 2006, featuring Gary Mokotoff. The event will be held at Denver Public Library (Central). Mokotoff is internationally recognized as one of the “foremost lecturers and authors on Jewish and Eastern European genealogical research.” The lectures will include:

• Holocaust Research: Documenting Victims, Locating Survivors
• Recent Advances in Jewish Genealogical Research
• The Human Interest Side of Genealogy: Three Interesting Stories
• The Changing Geography of Central and Eastern Europe
• Fundamentals of Researching Jewish Families

For more information see the JGSCO website. A discount is provided for pre-registrants before February 10.

There is a new exhibit at the Molly Brown House Museum, 1340 Pennsylvania St., Denver. The exhibit is a Brown-Tobin Family Tree Chart and a Brown-Tobin Heritage Album. The album and chart were done as part of the “Molly Brown” Genealogy Project, a joint project by Julie Miller, CG and Becky Olson, owner of Olsongraphics Keepsake Family Trees. Information about the project and about the Brown-Tobin genealogy is available online at www.browngenealogyproject.net.

National Archives - Rocky Mountain Region has acquired the microfilm series M1775, Internal Revenue Service Tax Assessment Lists for Colorado and Wyoming, 1873-1918. There are seven rolls of Colorado records consisting of:

• Assessment Lists
• Alphabetical Lists of Individuals and Withholding Agent Liable to Income Tax under Sec. 2, Act of October 3, 1913
• Assessment List of Banks and Bankers Special Assessment List of Corporations, Joint Stock Companies, Etc., Taxable under Section 38, Act of August 5, 1909

For specific information about each roll go to http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/microfilm/2005.html

For information concerning location and hours for National Archives - Rocky Mountain Region, go to http://www.archives.gov/rocky-mountain/